Word Meanings - CARBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To broil. "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.

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• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• CARBONATATION
  The saturation of defecated beet juice with carbonic acid gas. Knight.
• CARBONIDE
  A carbide.
• CARBONARISM
  The principles, practices, or organization of the Carbonari.
• CARBONIZATION
  The act or process of carbonizing.
• CARBONATED
  Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
• CARBONITE
  An explosive consisting essentially of nitroglycerin, wood meal, and some nitrate, as that of sodium. 2. An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.
• CARBON TRANSMITTER
  A telephone transmitter in which a carbon contact is used.
• BROILING
  Excessively hot; as, a broiling sun. -- n.
• CARBON PROCESS
  A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the
• CARBONE
  To broil. "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.
• CARBONATE
  A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
• CARBONADE; CARBONADO
  Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop.
• CARBONACEOUS
  Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.
• CARBONIZE
  1. To cover into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char. 2. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel by cementation.
• BROILER
  1. One who broils, or cooks by broiling. 2. A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling. 3. A chicken or other bird fit for broiling.
• CARBONARO
  A member of a secret political association in Italy, organized in the early part of the nineteenth centry for the purpose of changing the government into a republic. Note: The origin of the Carbonari is uncertain, but the society is said to have
• CARBONYL
  The radical ''b7, occuring, always combined, in many compounds, as the aldehydes, the ketones, urea, carbonyl chloride, etc. Note: Though denoted by a formula identical with that of carbon monoxide, it is chemically distinct, as carbon seems to
• BROIL
  1. To cook by direct exposure to heat over a fire, esp. upon a gridiron over coals. 2. To subject to great heat.
• CARBONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide. Carbonic acid , an acid H2CO3, not existing separately, which, combined with positive or basic atoms or radicals, forms carbonates. On common language the term is very generally
• MONOCARBONIC
  Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
• DISEMBROIL
  To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
• HYDROCARBON
  A compound containing only hydrogen and carbon, as methane, benzene, etc.; also, by extension, any of their derivatives. Hydrocarbon burner, furnace, stove, a burner, furnace, or stove with which liquid fuel, as petroleum, is used.
• SUBCARBONIFEROUS
  Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.
• DECARBONIZER
  He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.
• SULPHOCARBONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.
• DECARBONIZE
  To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood. Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron. -- Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
• DECARBONATE
  To deprive of carbonic acid.
• DECARBONIZATION
  The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.
• EMBROILMENT
  The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.
• ORTHOCARBONIC
  Designating a complex ether, C. 4, which is obtained as a liquid of a pleasant ethereal odor by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid,
• SULPHOCARBONATE
  A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.